An excellent piece by Glen Poole for the Telegraph. Be sure to read the comments too, if you have the time. One commenter went to the trouble of tracking down the profile of Dr Annika Newnham, one of the two co-authors of the University of Warwick report, and found this:
I supervise a number of Undergraduate Dissertations, predominantly on child law topics, but also some which critique the law from a feminist perspective. [my emphasis]
Later in the same profile:
My work on shared residence orders has compared Sweden and England to learn valuable lessons on what works, and what doesn’t work, when using the law to promote shared parenting. It employs both autopoietic theory and a feminist perspective [my emphasis] to consider how concepts like family, equality and parenthood are understood in the two countries and examines law’s over-reliance on rigid definitions and abstract presumptions as well as its inability to recognise the true value of care.
Interesting any references?
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She’s not the only questionable feminist “academic” at Warwick. I recall some highly questionable domestic violence “research” coming from there about 10 years ago.
‘It employs both autopoietic theory and a feminist perspective [my emphasis] to consider how concepts like family, equality and parenthood are understood in the two countries and examines law’s over-reliance on rigid definitions and abstract presumptions … ‘
“When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, “it means just what I choose it to mean, neither more nor less.”
That’s the problem with law, isn’t it: people know what it says and means and expect it to protect them. What I understand Annika Newnham to be saying, in other words, is “we have to get away from laws that mean what they say and move to an understanding that laws can be interpreted to mean precisely what those enforcing them want them to mean at the time from a feminist perspective“.
I’m not surprised she compared England (Not the ‘United’ Kingdom?) to the dysfunctional feminist hellhole that is Sweden, nor am I surprised that she thinks we can learn from the Swedish experience. Feminists are untreatably mentally ill and should be committed for life, for the good of everyone, male and female.
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